Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 2/26/26
The MeidasTouch Podcast
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4.9 • 56.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myceles, and this is your breaking news. Where to begin? Well, of course, you had that disastrous state of the union that Donald Trump gave in contrast to the people state of the union that we hosted here on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you, everybody who joined the People's State of the Union that we hosted here on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you, |
| 0:21.2 | everybody who joined the People's State of the Union. We had over 2.1 million viewers to the |
| 0:28.6 | people's state of the Union on digital that was beating every cable and corporate news network |
| 0:35.0 | that was airing the state of the union. I think to myself, |
| 0:39.9 | imagine if Midas Touch Network had a cable channel or a channel on linear TV, what the view |
| 0:48.3 | count would have been there. I mean, I think that if we were able to program such a show, |
| 0:53.4 | I think there would probably be five to |
| 0:55.3 | 10 million people watching that as well. But we get to, I think, really center our coverage |
| 1:02.4 | in what the people are experiencing. I thought it was important for our people state of the union, |
| 1:09.6 | which, by the way, shout out to move on. |
| 1:11.7 | Didn't they do an incredible job? |
| 1:13.2 | Shout out to all the members of Congress who attended the people state of the union, |
| 1:19.0 | had over 40 Congress members and senators who showed up to our event. |
| 1:23.2 | But perhaps even most important at all, thanks to all of the people who shared their stories |
| 1:29.9 | about how the Trump regime has impacted them and their lives. |
| 1:33.0 | And I think it's so important that we strike a very serious tone the way we did in the people |
| 1:38.5 | state of the union, but center it also in the people. |
| 1:41.7 | That's why we called it the people state of the union to show what lawmakers |
| 1:45.9 | had to say, of course, but also you could hear the stories of people, real people, who represent |
| 1:52.8 | millions of other Americans who are experiencing the same types of tragedy, the same types of |
| 2:00.0 | hardship, the same types of pain and suffering that |
| 2:04.4 | the Trump regime is inflicting. But ultimately, I also see with the success of something like |
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